From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262478AbTDHW5h (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 18:57:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262509AbTDHW5g (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 18:57:36 -0400 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.106]:55197 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262478AbTDHW50 convert rfc822-to-8bit (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 18:57:26 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Badari Pulavarty To: Andrew Morton , Alistair Strachan Subject: Re: 2.5.67-mm1 Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 16:06:13 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200304081741.10129.alistair@devzero.co.uk> <20030408142853.74709a82.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030408142853.74709a82.akpm@digeo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200304081606.13405.pbadari@us.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 08 April 2003 02:28 pm, Andrew Morton wrote: > Alistair Strachan wrote: > > On attempting to boot this kernel, I get the following just before init: > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 > > > > 2.5.67 base works fine. I discovered that reverting the following > > patches allows me to boot. I can increase the granularity of my search > > if nothing comes immediately to mind: > > > > aggregated-disk-stats.patch > > dynamic-hd_struct-allocation-fixes.patch > > dynamic-hd_struct-allocation.patch > > Ah, good detective work, thanks. It looks like the hd_struct dynamic > allocation patch has broken devfs partition discovery somehow. Thanks.. I am going to look now. Must have broken something in devfs. - Badari